President Trump has threatened to veto a bipartisan bill that would require Congress to approve his tariffs on trading partners. To discuss, we FEATURE Sarah Anderson. Anderson is the director of the Global Economy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies, a multi-issue research and education center founded in Washington, DC, in 1963. She is a co-author of the books Field Guide to the Global Economy and Alternatives to Economic Globalization as well as dozens of studies and articles on the impact of trade and investment liberalization on communities, workers, the poor, and the environment. Anderson sits on the steering committees of the Alliance for Responsible Trade and the Center on Corporate Policy. Media includes: The New York Times, Washington Journal, CNBC, MSNBC, CBS News.

A study by JAMA Pediatrics found that 7 million adolescent girls lived in states with abortion bans, restrictive gestational limits or parental involvement requirements. To discuss, we FEATURE Sophia Yen. Yen is an adolescent medicine specialist and reproductive rights advocate. She co-founded and is the CEO of Pandia Health and has been featured in many publications for her work in reproductive health. Yen is an Associate Professor at Stanford Medical School in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. Her research interests are: Emergency Contraception knowledge, use and practice of patients and physicians, reproductive health needs of adolescents and college students, accuracy of reproductive health websites. She served on the boards of the Center for Reproductive Rights, the C4 of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate and the California Abortion Rights Action League. Media includes: Oprah Radio, San Jose Mercury News, Good Housekeeping, Ms. Magazine, NBC.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was in the U.S. legally, was accidentally deported to El Salvador. An order from a trial judge that he be returned to the United States has been temporarily overturned by the Supreme Court. To discuss, we FEATURE Theresa Cardinal Brown. Brown is BPC’s Senior Advisor for Immigration and Border Policy. She was director of immigration and border policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; associate director of business immigration advocacy at the American Immigration Lawyers Association; and worked in the immigration practices of large Washington, D.C.-based law firms. Brown was a policy advisor in the office of the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and was on Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s Second Stage Review of USCIS. In 2005 and 2006, she became a member and later director of the Immigration Legislation Task Force in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Policy. Media includes: Time Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, PBS, NBC, NPR.

On Monday, The New York Times released a video of Gaza aid workers being killed by Israeli gunfire. The U.N. has stated thatthe 15 paramedics and rescue workers were killed despite being in clearly marked ambulances and a fire truck. To discuss, we FEATURE Colleen Striegel. Striegel, the founder and Executive Director of HumanitarianHR, is a global aid professional with more than 17 years of experience building and promoting equitable, safe, and human-centered workplace culture for aid organizations. At HumanitarianHR, she helps organizations develop the highest standards to safeguard dignity and restore hope for those silenced in global development and aid settings. Striegel has managed projects to protect refugees and displaced people with humanitarian organizations including the American Refugee Committee, UNHCR, and IOM, and has served on disaster response teams in Indonesia, Guinea, Kosovo, Liberia, Myanmar, Sudan, and others. Media includes: Workforce Magazine, Humentum.

U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, who served as the U.S. Navy representative to NATO’s military committee NATO, has been fired by the Trump administration. To discuss, we FEATURE Nora Bensahel. Bensahel is a Professor of Practice at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a contributing editor and columnist for War on the Rocks. She is a renowned expert on U.S. defense policy, military operations, and the future of war. She is the co-author of the recently-published book Adaptation Under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime. Before joining SAIS, Dr. Bensahel was a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the School of International Service at American University and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Prior to that, she was a senior fellow and co-director of the Responsible Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security. Her early career included over eleven years at the RAND Corporation, where she rose to the position of senior political scientist. Media includes: Voice of America, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Voice of America, PBS, CNN, NPR.

April 7th is the International Day of Remembrance for the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. To discuss, we FEATURE Jacqueline Murekatete. Murekatete is an internationally recognized genocide survivor and human rights activist. Born in Rwanda, Jacqueline was nine years old when she lost her parents, all six siblings and most of her extended family to the 1994 genocide. Murekatete is the founder and president of Genocide Survivors Foundation (GSF), a New York based not-for-profit organization, which educates people about the crime of genocide and raises funds to support survivors. Media includes: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera America, UN Africa Renewal Magazine, CNN, PBS, NBC, ABC, MTV.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. To discuss, we FEATURE Nancy Chi Cantalupo. Cantalupo is a nationally-recognized scholar and expert on Title IX, sexual harassment, and gender-based violence in education. Her scholarship draws from her over 25 years of anti-campus sexual harassment and gender-based violence work as a researcher, campus administrator, victims’ advocate, attorney, and policymaker and focuses on the use of law to combat discriminatory violence. In her pro bono work, Cantalupo has consulted with President Obama’s White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, participated on a U.S. Senate roundtable, served as a Negotiator on the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee that amended regulations for the Clery Act, and testified before the Maryland and Virginia state legislatures. Cantalupo is currently an assistant professor of law and associate dean for diversity, equity and belonging at the Wayne State University Law School. Media includes: The Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, Time.